multiculturalism in literature

"Writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative"--Amazon.

Presents an annotated listing of multicultural books for young people ages eleven to fifteen, arranged alphabetically by title, with author and cultural indexes. Expands the definition of multicultural to cover ethnicity, sexual orientation, and physical, mental, or emotional challenges.

Presents a curriculum model for the development of multicultural programs in schools and includes a listing of fiction titles that address the topics of families, peers, prejudice, and self-awareness.

Features American literature that explores the implications for one's sense of identity while living within and between two or more cultures, whether that arises from immigration, being the child of immigrants, being mixed race, or some other circumstance.

Use this directory to select titles for a diverse population.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that profile over one hundred authors who lived in another culture either by choice or in exile, each with a brief biography, discussion of multicultural themes in their writing, a review of criticism, and bibliographies.